Thanks for the evidence

Donald J. Trump is a straightforward, unabashed, card-carrying white supremacist!

How do I know? Simple. He keeps telling us every chance he gets.

Of course, there was his unhinged racist diatribe against the falsely accused five young New York teenagers of color known as the Central Park Five back in 1989. DNA evidence eventually and conclusively proved that none of them raped or beat a young white female jogger in Central Park, but that didn’t stop then prominent wealthy businessman Trump from taking out a full page ad in the NY Times adamantly calling for each of them to get the death penalty, even before a trial.

Mind you, this was the same celebrity real estate tycoon who, with his Ku Klux Klan-member daddy, Fred Trump, was cited by the US Justice Dept. in the late 1970s, for barring black tenants from his NY rental properties.

But of course, this pleasant look down Memory Lane wouldn’t be complete unless we added Trump’s disgusting words about illegal immigrants from Mexico “… bringing drugs…bringing crime….[and being] rapists” when he first announced for the presidency in 2015.

The relentless way he went after Pres. Barack Obama, falsely claiming that the nation's first black president was actually not an American citizen, and lied about his Harvard U education                                                                                                                                                                   

In a delicious retort, Obama promptly displayed his birth certificate, and publicly dismissed Trump as a "carnival barker."

And who could forget his cruel and bigoted diatribes against Haitians and Muslims?

But the unforgivable crap he pulled recently in the Oval Office ambushing the president of democratic South Africa in front of the White House press corps, falsely accusing the black South African government of committing genocide against its white ethnic minority Afrikaner farmers, for the purpose of confiscating their lands... that just takes the racist cake.

Let me make it clear - I am one of those freedom-loving people who has a very, very low tolerance for genocide being committed against any population. Certainly the tragic lessons of World War II, and Nazi regime madman Adolf Hitler’s extermination of six million Jews in his sick white supramacist campaign to ultimately rule the world, stands out in history as a prime example of why we can never allow anything close to that extreme crime against humanity to ever happen to any people, of any nation, ever again.

So for the so-called “leader” of the free world to openly and falsely accuse the president of another sovereign nation of racially wiping out a certain population - in this case white citizens - is a very serious charge. That’s calling someone “Adolf Hitler’ to his face.

Why would Trump do such a thing? Evidence suggests he’s trying to boost his cred as a white supremacist leader on the world stage. What’s shocking is how he will desperately, and shamefully, stop at nothing to do so.

It was May 21st when Trump hosted South African Pres. Cyril Ramaphosa and his delegation at the White House, under the guise of resetting the diplomatic relationship between the two nations and discussing trade. 

Little did Ramaphosa know that Trump was setting him up, though it’s clear the South African head of state, having seen Trump misbehave with other foreign leaders in the Oval, suspected Trump capable of almost anything.

Customarily, when you get an invitation to the White House, presumably to cut a “let’s renew our friendship” trade deal, you come running, even if it is with Trump. Small nations like South Africa thrive on trade with China, the European Union and yes, the United States. South Africa, going back as far as the racist white apartheid regime, has been the source of precious minerals like diamonds larger nations covet for commerce and research.

So when the invite is issued, you normally show up with your guard down, and your hand out, ready to shake on an agreement.

But once Trump and his South African guest sat in the Oval Office, and media were invited in, things turned decidedly wrong. Trump introduced Ramaphosa as “controversial” in some quarters, and then proceeded to make the false allegation that his government allows the black persecution and murder of white South African farmers.

"You do allow them to take land, and then when they take the land, they kill the white farmer, and when they kill the white farmer, nothing happens to them," Trump charged a befuddled Ramaphosa with as a stunned White House press corps looked on.

To add insult to ultimate injury, Trump then told his aides to lower the lights, and called for a video to be played that showed a black South African activist demanding the death of white Afrikaner farmers.

“What you saw in the speeches that were being made—that is not government policy. We have a multiparty democracy in South Africa that allows people to express themselves,” Ramaphosa replied, explaining the hard rhetoric heard. “Our government policy is completely, completely against what he was saying.”

The video ended showing images of white crosses along a roadside, purportedly representing murdered white farmers.

Trump falsely claimed that the crosses were their graves.

Then Trump whipped out press clippings to back up his claims, reiterating that Ramaphosa’s black majority government confiscates the property of white Afrikaner farmers, forcing the South African president to deny every word out of Trump’s lying mouth.

For his part, Pres. Ramaphosa stayed relatively cool under fire, coming off as the adult in the room despite Trump’s antics. But there’s no question that Trump wanted the world to see him rhetorically stomp the black president.

Keep in mind that all of this drama came days after over 50 white Afrikaners, some with children, had been flown to the United States, and given the red carpet treatment by Trump Administration officials, under the guise of being fast-tracked political refugees supposedly escaping tyranny.

As an op-ed writer in The Hill put it, "It wasn’t a refugee arrival. It was a spectacle — a carefully staged, Hollywood-style production of resettlement."

"What we have seen in the case of the Afrikaners is a strategic, racialized provocation that twists the legal and moral foundations of refugee protections to serve a white nationalist agenda."

Those white "refugees" were an exception to the Trump administration’s overall refugee ban on other nations.

If you’re thinking that the fingerprints of infamous South African billionaire businessman and father of DOGE, Elon Musk, were all over this cheap ambush, well hell, he was right there in the Oval Office, grinning from ear-to-ear while it was going on.

It’s been reported that Musk is trying to muscle the South African government into approving his Starlink internet service. Apparently this sorry display was his way of playing hard ball.

The problem with Trump’s South African ambush is that it was long on bluster, but sorely short on facts. Fortunately, my colleagues in the White House press corps followed up on Trump’s allegations, and found the following:

One of the photos Trump displayed and claimed was evidence of white genocide in South Africa actually depicted Red Cross workers carrying body bags of women who had been raped and burned alive in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is at war with Rwanda-backed rebels. Nothing to do with South Africa or white farmers.

That video portraying what Trump claimed were  “over 1,000 graves” of slain white Afrikaner farmers, actually was of symbolic crosses on a roadside from a memorial demonstration following the murder of a white farming couple, NOT actual graves. South Africa admittedly does have a terrible crime problem and high murder rate of blacks, whites and mixed race people. 

According to Reuters News Service, South African police reported that eight white farmers were murdered in 2024. Tragic, but hardly genocide. 

Indeed, international organizations and media have investigated false claims of systematic white genocide in South Africa for years, and have come up empty.

CNN reported that from April to December 2024, South African authorities say “…a total of 19,696 murders were committed in South Africa. Only 36 were committed on farms, and just seven victims were farmers. Official data is not broken down by race, so it is not known how many victims were white or black.”

But it should surprise no one that those in the far-right fringe white supremacist movement would exploit any white South African deaths as propaganda for their own gains.

` And it’s no wonder. As a result of the previous racist apartheid system, white Afrikaners are seven percent of South Africa’s population, but own an amazing 75% of the farmland, according to available South African statistics.

Farmland that was stolen from black South Africans during the white apartheid regime.

The black majority government passed a law last January to redress this outrageous land inequity, effectively allowing it to seize private property if it deemed necessary. Reportedly, that hasn’t happened yet. No land has been seized. Instead, the South African government is encouraging white farmers to sell their properties.

If Trump provided any evidence of anything at all in this whole tawdry display, it’s that he was more than willing to use the White House, our house, to promote a white supremacist lie. There can be no other reason.

Mind you, this is the same Pres. Donald Trump who just came back from a whirlwind trip to the Middle East, where he promised not to utter a word about the well-known human rights buses in countries like Saudi Arabia and Qatar, just so that he could cut lucrative deals and pocket a free $400 million plane.

Hypocrisy reeks from that clown, but one thing is clear. Trump is at full-throated war with anything that even smacks of DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion). That means when given the opportunity, he has to brandish his white supremacist credentials boldly and often.

He’s made it clear that he intends to wipe DEI off the face of the American map. So if he can pull that hat trick on the world stage by manhandling non-white nations like South Africa, Haiti and Venezuela, his perverted dream of world domination could come true, he hopes. Trump is fully devoted to diminishing anything or anybody that smacks of progress or authority for people of color anywhere.

Making false claims of white genocide against a majority black country. Sounds like the crackpot plot to a stupid espionage movie, but then, what is there about Donald Trump that isn’t crackpot?

So thanks for the evidence, King Donald. Not the BS you brandished in your transparent attempt to embarrass and belittle the South African president, but the clear evidence you unveiled proving that when it comes to being the world’s most powerful, prominent and delusional white supremacist, absolutely no one can pull the sheet off from around your head, Donald, like you.

No one!